Diocese of Lucena




Our Bishop The Clergy Diocesan Curia Parishes Seminaries Catholic Schools Offices & Institutions Diocesan Library




Daily Bible Daily Reflections Life of Saints Holy Mass	Donate Bishop's Appeal

Life of Saints

Most Read


St. Norbert -- 06 June 2021

St. Norbert was born at Xanten in the Rhineland, about the year 1080. The early part of his life was devoted to the world and its pleasures. He entered upon the ecclesiastical state in a worldly spiri... READ MORE



St. Boniface of Mainz -- 05 June 2021

Patron: of brewers; Fulda; Germany; World Youth Day Birth: 675 Death: 754 Winfrith had expected to return to England from Friesland (in what is now Holland) in triumph. He had left the land where... READ MORE



St. Francis Caracciolo -- 04 June 2021

Patron: of Naples (Italy), Italian cooks Birth: 1563 Death: 1608 Founder of the Minor Clerks Regular with St. John Augustine Adorno. He was born in 1563, a member of a noble Neapolitan family. Th... READ MORE



St. Charles Lwanga and Companions -- 03 June 2021

For those of us who think that the faith and zeal of the early Christians died out as the Church grew more safe and powerful through the centuries, the martyrs of Uganda are a reminder that persecutio... READ MORE



Sts. Marcellinus and Peter -- 02 June 2021

Death: 304 Though we know very little about these two martyrs under Diocletian, there is no question that the early church venerated them. Evidence of the respect in which they were held are the ba... READ MORE


PREV \| NEXT You are viewing records from 421 to 425 of total 886.


St. Apollonius the Apologist -- 18 April 2022

Death: 185 Martyr whose Apologia, or defense of the faith, is considered one of the most priceless documents of the early Church. Apollonius was a Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by ... READ MORE



St. Tarasius -- 25 February 2022

Birth: 730 Death: 806 St. Tarasius was subject of the Byzantine Empire. He was raised to the highest honors in the Empire as Consul, and later became first secretary to the Emperor Constantine and... READ MORE



St. John of God -- 08 March 2022

Patron: of Booksellers Birth: 1495 Death: 1550 From the time he was eight to the day he died, John followed every impulse of his heart. The challenge for him was to rush to follow the promptings ... READ MORE



St. Matthew -- 21 September 2021

Patron: Bankers Little is known about St. Matthew, except that he was the son of Alpheus, and he was likely born in Galilee. He worked as a tax collector, which was a hated profession during the ti... READ MORE



St. Wolfgang -- 31 October 2021

Death: 994 Wolfgang (d. 994) + Bishop and reformer. Born in Swabia, Germany, he studied at Reichenau under the Benedictines and at Wurzburg before serving as a teacher in the cathedral school of Tr... READ MORE


PREV \| NEXT You are viewing records from 381 to 385 of total 887.

This website is developed and maintained by and for the faithful of the Diocese of Lucena